I found this quite an interesting read, as memoirs often are. It’s impossible to write about this book without mentioning the forward because I think it adds a really interesting layer to the story. The narrator was not related to Mama Blanca but…
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I found this quite an interesting read, as memoirs often are. It’s impossible to write about this book without mentioning the forward because I think it adds a really interesting layer to the story. The narrator was not related to Mama Blanca but…
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As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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I appreciate the significance of Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, as history is not often recollected from the perspective of women, much less pieced together from memories of girlhood. The written iteration of Blanca’s oral reflections on her childhood provides a uniquely personal look into 19th-century Latin America. I found the book quite dense and granular in its […]
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Hello blog readers, The reading for this week was Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra. As my first official blog post for this class, I was unsure of what to write about, but the foreword of the novel led me to have questions I wanted to …
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Hello blog readers, The reading for this week was Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra. As my first official blog post for this class, I was unsure of what to write about, but the foreword of the novel led me to have questions I wanted to …
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Wow. Teresa de la Parra’s “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” was such an interesting read and made me feel nostalgic in a way. The second paragraph in the Foreword, where she wrote “It was not kinship that bound me to Mama Blanca, but mysterious spiritual affinities that in the commerce of souls weave the brief or enduring […]
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Teresa de la Parra’s Mama Blanca’s Memoirs was a pleasant read filled with feelings of childhood, memory, and nostalgia. Additionally, the book also fed thoughts on accuracy—and distortion—of representations, different perspectives within narratives, and the nature of storytelling. Lastly, Teresa de la Parra’s book provided an interesting—perhaps inaccurate, to an extent—depiction of the realities of […]
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